5-letter words starting with s
- sansa — an African musical instrument
- sansk — Sanskrit
- santa — Santa Claus.
- santo — a carved figure of a saint, usually of wood, as from Puerto Rico, Mexico, or the southwestern U.S.
- sanwu — South African National Workers Union
- sanʿa — Republic of, a country in S Arabia, formed in 1990 by the merger of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. 207,000 sq. mi. (536,130 sq. km). Capital: Aden.
- saola — a small bovine mammal, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis,native to Vietnam and Laos
- saona — an island in the Caribbean Sea, S of the SE Dominican Republic coast. About 13 miles (21 km) long.
- saone — a river flowing S from NE France to the Rhone. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- sapid — having taste or flavor.
- sapir — Edward, 1884–1939, U.S. anthropologist and linguist, born in Germany.
- sapor — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor.
- sappy — abounding in sap, as a plant.
- sarah — the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. Gen. 17:15–22.
- sarai — an earlier name of Sarah. Gen. 17:15.
- saran — a thermoplastic copolymer of vinylidene chloride and usually small amounts of vinyl chloride or acrylonitrile: used as a fiber, for packaging, and for making acid-resistant pipe.
- saree — sari.
- sarfu — South African Rugby Football Union
- sarge — sergeant.
- sargo — a silvery grunt, Anisotremus davidsonii, inhabiting waters off the coasts of California and Mexico, having blackish markings and yellowish fins.
- sarin — Sarin is an extremely poisonous gas that is used in chemical weapons.
- sarky — sarcastic.
- sarod — a lute of northern India, played with a bow.
- saros — Gulf of, an inlet of the Aegean, N of the Gallipoli Peninsula. 37 miles (60 km) long; 22 miles (35 km) wide.
- sarpi — Paolo (ˈpaolo), real name Pietro Soave Polano. 1552–1623, Italian scholar, theologian, and patriot, who championed the Venetian republic in its dispute with Pope Paul V, arguing against papal absolutism and for the separation of church and state
- sarre — French name of Saar.
- sarto — Andrea del [ahn-drey-uh del;; Italian ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl;; Italian ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), Andrea del Sarto.
- saruk — a tightly woven Oriental rug with soft colors and, usually, a center design.
- sarus — a large Indian crane, Grus antigone
- saser — a device for amplifying ultrasound, working on a similar principle to a laser
- sasha — a female given name, form of Sandra or Alexandra.
- sasin — blackbuck.
- sask. — Saskatchewan
- sasse — a lock on a river made to increase its navigability
- sassy — impertinent; insolent; saucy: a sassy reply; a sassy teen.
- satan — Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool
- satay — a Southeast Asian, especially Indonesian and Malaysian, dish of marinated, bite-size pieces of meat, skewered, barbecued, and usually served with a peanut-flavored dipping sauce.
- sated — to satisfy (any appetite or desire) fully.
- satem — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- sates — to satisfy (any appetite or desire) fully.
- satie — Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- satin — a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- satis — the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.
- satyr — Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
- sauba — a South American ant, Ecodoma cephalotes, known for defoliating trees and carrying the leaves into underground nests
- sauce — any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- sauch — sallow2 .
- saucy — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- saudi — a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia.
- saugh — sallow2 .